Harvesting uranium from nuclear waste streams

Alexander I. Wiechert; Gyoung Gug Jang; Costas Tsouris

doi:10.1038/s44221-025-00481-0

Harvesting uranium from nuclear waste streams

Alexander I. Wiechert, Gyoung Gug Jang, Costas Tsouris

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Nuclear-fuel-cycle wastewater contains a considerable amount of uranium that must be removed. A new electron-buffering adsorbent provides an economically efficient means of recycling uranium to address remediation and fuel resource needs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	852-853
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Water
Volume	3
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00481-0
State	Published - Aug 2025

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This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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